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OK, it’s officially Christmas.  Well, OK, it’s technically Christmas Eve, but I bet a lot of you out there are like my family and you do your Christmas family stuff on Christmas Eve.  That’s the way it’s always been at my house.  When we were kids, sure, we opened the gifts from our parents on Christmas morning, but times change and people get married and other families become part of yours and so the rules change.  We always did the visiting of grandma and my cousins on Christmas Eve, though.

I tried to find someone like a Charlie Parker or Miles Davis or John Coltrane playing just one Christmas tune.  Instead, what I found was a bunch of high school Christmas programs with the jazz band doing interpretations of Christmas carols.  Most of them were from a long way away by parents proudly holding up hand-held digital cameras.

This one isn’t very different except that it’s closer and there was just something about it.  Sure, this isn’t a jazz club and it’s no one you are likely to know, but I sat there watching this and listening and just smiled from ear to ear.  It’s nice to see some young people playing jazz and enjoying it, I guess.  I like knowing that maybe jazz isn’t some dying form of music and maybe there are young folks out there who appreciate it.

So, I hope you grin too when you watch this.  It may not be pros…but it kinda has that warm fuzzy thing going on.  From YouTube, it’s Christmas jazz on the sax:

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